Nail-file



(No Model.)

B. W. JACOBS.

NAIL FILE.

No. 569,285. Patented Oct. 13,1896;

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BENJAMIN IV. JACOBS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

NAIL-FILE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 569,285, dated October 13, 1896.

Application filed F b a y 15, 1896. Serial No. 579,335. (No model) To all whom it puny concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN W. JACOBS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Nail-Files, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to nail files, cutters, and cleaners; and the object thereof is to provide an improved device of this class which is simple in form and construction and which possesses many advantages over devices of this class now in use.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which Figure 1 is a side view of my improved nailfile; Fig. 2, a section thereof on the line 2 2; Fig. 3, a side view of a modified form of construction Fig. 4, a section thereof on the line at i; and Figs. 5 and 6 are sections similar to that of Fig. 4, but showing different forms of construction.

In the practice of my invention I provide a nail file, cutter, and cleaner which comprises a handle A and a blade B, and the blade B is provided with an end section b, which is pointed and preferably sharpened on both sides, and the body of the blade B is formed into a file, as shown at 5 and formed in one edge thereof are segmental or semicircular notches or recesses 11 which extend about half-way through the blade, thus leav- In the construction shown in Fig. 3 the straight edge I)" is cut out in forming the segmental notches or recesses b and the back walls of said notches or recesses are inclined or beveled, as shown at 19 and three different forms of this construction are shown in Figs. 4, 5, and 6, and in Fig. 6 an outwardlydirected projecting flange or shoulder b is provided, which extends over the inner portion of the segmental notch or recess, and this shoulder or projection is also segmental in form.

By means of these various forms of construction almost any style or shape of fingernail may be easily and perfectly trimmed in any desired manner, and it will thus be seen that I provide an effective device and one which is comparatively inexpensive, while being well adapted to accomplish the result for which it is intended.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a nail-file, provided with a blade having a filesurface one edge of the blade being cut away to form a series of segmental notches or recesses, which are also provided with file-surfaces, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The herein-described nail-file constructed with a blade provided with a filesurface, and having one edge thereof cut away to form a series of segmental recesses or notches b which are reduced in size from the point of the blade toward the opposite end thereof, said blade being provided with a straight edge or web 12 below said recesses,

also provided with file-surfaces, whereby the nail is made uniformlyconvex and is smoothed on the under surface, substantially as and for the purpose described.

111 testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 14th day of February, 1896.

BENJAMIN IV. JACOBS.

iVitnesses O. G. MILLIN, 0. Gnnsr. 

